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A religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church.

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  • At a time when the error since called Gallicanism spread everywhere he was a
  • The attempt as made in France is known as Gallicanism, as made in Germany it is termed Febronianism and Josephism, in Italy Leopoldism.
  • Gallicanism, based largely upon the counter-despotism of the King.
  • Its tenets con - tinued to prevail in France, however, and Gallicanism
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